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Analysis and comments on Our Whole Life by Adrienne Rich

Comment 1 of 1, added on December 10th, 2007 at 6:54 PM.

The poem seems to be entirely pessimistic. Memory fades, but pain never
dies. The break in the middle reminds one of Dickinson, and of a sort of
tradition of darkly philosophical female poets in the English language.

Nicholas Stevens from United States



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Poet: Adrienne Rich
Poem: Our Whole Life
Year: 1969
Added: Feb 21 2003
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Poem of the Day: Jun 27 2004


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